Thursday, Nov 15 2007
• 10 a.m. (ET)

China’s Three Gorges Dam

China’s long dreamed-for engineering feat may be turning into an environmental nightmare. How demand to control flooding and meet China’s ravenous energy needs through cleaner means is playing out along the Yangtze River.

Guests

Cheng Li
Senior fellow and research director at the Brookings Institution's John L. Thornton China Center, a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the author of "China's Changing Political Landscape."

Jerome Delli Priscolli
Senior adviser at the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers' Institute for Water Resources; member on the board of governors of The World Water Council; editor-in-chief of "Water Policy;" author of forthcoming book "Transforming Water Conflicts."

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